Re: Wombat Checkpoint Reordering Proposal

I like it.

I am wondering if there is some paralell with the XML accessibility
guidelines - http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/XML - which are in many ways about
using XML as a specific tool for a certain type of authoring.

Cheers

Chaals

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Jan Richards wrote:

>
>Hello all,
>
>Recent AUWG discussions of implementation and evaluation techniques for
>Wombat seem to reveal shortcomings in the ordering of the guidelines. In
>an attempt to rectify this, I (with some help from Matt May) am making
>the following reordering proposal:
>
>http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/2002/07/22-wombatreorder.html
>
>---
>
>The primary thrust of the proposal is to organize the seven guidelines
>into four "Tiers" that will build successively upon the ones before.
>
>- Tier 1 includes those guidelines that address ways to ENABLE
>accessible content production, but which do not actively support or
>promote it (from the author perspective).
>=> Implementation Techniques for these guidelines involve reference to
>W3C language recommendations and to WCAG.
>
>- Tier 2 builds upon Tier 1 by including those guidelines that address
>ways to actively SUPPORT accessible content production by prompting,
>checking and documenting.
>=> Implementation Techniques for these guidelines general strategies
>(see Prompting appendix), the AERT, and general themes in WCAG.
>
>- Tier 3 builds on Tiers 1 and 2 by addressing the manner in which the
>Tier 1 and 2 checkpoints should be integrated with the tool.
>=> Implementation Techniques for these guidelines involve User Interface
>integration ideas.
>
>- Tier 4 builds upon Tiers 1, 2 and 3 by addressing the accessibility of
>the user interface of the tool, as a whole.
>=> Implementation Techniques for these guidelines involve third-party
>platform-specific guidelines as well as access-friendly authoring
>interface mechanisms.
>
>*NOTE 1*: This step-upon-step approach is the way that I tend to explain
>the document to others. But up until now, it was not made explicit by
>the document structure.
>
>*NOTE 2*: Grouping the "Guidelines" into "Tiers" means that the wording
>of guidelines may remain essentially the same as it was in ATAG 1.0. The
>checkpoints will likely still need to be fine-tuned.
>
>---
>
>Several minor changes were required for the reordering to work:
>
>- The order of Guidelines 1 and 2 will need to be switched to place the
>choice of output format and the production of valid markup first, as
>precursors for the rest of the ATAG requirements.
>
>- The order of Guidelines 5 and 6 will need to be switched, since
>Guideline 5 (dealing with integration) is actually a modifier for
>Guideline 6 (dealing with documentation) in the current Wombat draft.
>
>- Note that checkpoint 5.1 is now numbered 6.X. This was done because I
>believe the checkpoint is now unnecessary.
>
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>
>Cheers,
>Jan
>
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>Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)
>University of Toronto
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